Vocab Ch 2 Flashcards by Erin Mancini | Brainscape

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Donnybrook

A

A fight an uproar

Ant: agreement

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Nonchalant

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Unconcerned detached relaxed

Ant: excited concerned alarmed

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Vestige

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Remnant

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Interlocutor

A

Someone who participated in conversation

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Procrustean

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Ruthless undiscriminating

Sympathetic compassionate

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Stygian

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Dark, forbidding, shadowy

Ant: bright

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Sophistry

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Misleading chicanery ruse

Ant: truth

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Carte Blanche

A

License sanction free rein

Ant: restriction

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Incantation

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Chant spell invocation

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Cosmopolitan

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Sophisticated cultured

Ant: privincal

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Rife

A

Abundant prevalent overflowing

Ant: lacking limited

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Brigand

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Robber outlaw

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Contemptuous

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Haughty scornful arrogant derisive

Ant humble polite

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Metamorphosis

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Transformation

Ant: stasis

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